3d Illustration Tutorial
Milba Vanpatten
Ahhh, Finally decided to throw together a HDR tutorial. Its not as in-depth as some of my other tutes, but describes the overall process I use. I created a rendering just for this tutorial, one that I thought would work well for HDR processing with lots of textures, i.e. grasses, and a cloudy sky.
To process and HDR image, I use software called Photomatix. It seems to be the software of choice by the professionals and does the best job in my experience. I believe Photoshop CS5 can process HDR images, but is much slower and offers less control.
Below are the 3 renderings with different exposures that I used to create the HDR image.The first is the initial rendering, the second is with increased exposure and the the third with lowered exposure.
3. Increase the exposure so that you bring back a little detail in the shadows and dark areas of the illustration. Do not worry about bleaching out other areas of the image with too much light. This will be corrected in the HDR processing software.
6. The next dialogue box that comes up will ask you what the E.V. spacing is. The software will guess what the spacing is and I usually just go with that and click OK. However, if your feeling dangerous, you could input the exact exposure value used in Photoshop when creating the different exposed images.
There isn't really an easy way to remove noise that I have found. I remove it by smudging and painting areas that I want to fix in PS. There is a setting in Photomatix that you can check in the beginning to reduce noise, but it doesn't do that great of a job.
The initial image already processed in PS isn't it? With added grass,skies,ets..
I just wondering where did you get the grass and skies. It looks surreal and very artistic. Also can you also share where did you get most of your cutouts? Was it from Vyonyx?
Thanks a lot mate!
The idea that changing exposure in Photoshop will be beneficial in HDR is a popular myth, unfortunately. Nothing new is being created by changing the exposure of a single photo. All that's being done is the existing pixels are being pushed around. The reason Photomatix brings up the exposure settings dialogue is that it can't find different exposure data in the EXIF of the images. If true, in camera, bracketed images were used, this dialogue wouldn't come up.
hey alex great stuff!
im sure many cs5 users would be very greatful if you put up a tutorial of how we can do the same hdr processing oon CS5 as u said it can be done in the beggining? it would probably be an easier way than photmatix?
Recently I made a Tipi tent for my cat. Originally I was thinking to make a real size one for myself as it was always one of my childhood dream, unfortunately I don't think there is any space left in the house, maybe in the future. Anyhow although this is a miniature version Tipi I still enjoyed the whole building process enormously and today I decided to drew an illustration tutorial for whoever would also like to give a try!
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According to the Ojibwe tribe's ancient legend, there was this Spider Woman, known as Asibikaashi. She took care of the children and the people on the land. Eventually, the Ojibwe Nation spread to the corners of North America and it became difficult for Asibikaashi to reach all the children. So the mothers and grandmothers would weave magical webs for the children, using willow hoops and sinew, or cordage made from plants. The dreamcatchers would filter out all bad dreams and only allow good thoughts to enter our mind. Once the sun rises, all bad dreams just disappear.
How was that sounds like? Very cool indeed. I simply love all the ancient culture's legend and stories, however more and more of them is getting lose during the time, I'd love to learn all of them and pass on to the next generation. In the end of the day ,that's what make us who we are now.
Although I was thinking to buy one dreamcatcher for a long time (as my dream plays a huge part of my life), after some research and drawing, I decided to make one by myself. And since I've already done one illustration tutorial about how to make a tipi tent for pets , I thought I should make one for the dreamcatcher too.
I thought, my first watercolor illustration tutorial will be about painting face. I even recorded all process, but then I saw wonderful videos of Mateusz Urbanowicz (Polish illustrator based in Japan). It was a pure inspiration. I am totally in love with his old Tokyo buildings series. That is why urban theme, not very typical for my illustrations, is the first of my tutorials and not least, hopefully!
I am beginning with the pencil sketch. It is quite bold, but I wanted to make it visible after I apply watercolor. A pencil will loose this black color after painting, but because of visible line art all will have storybook/ comic style.
I wanted my picture in colorful and subtle color scheme, to keep it in an optimistic tone. So even if this girl on the picture sitting in front of the coffee shop seems to be a bit lonely, you can have hope that the one, who she is waiting for will finally come.
The coffee shop window is the exception. I paint it with vivid yellow first, to simulate a switched on a light inside, and then I am adding darker shades of blue and violet to paint silhouettes of people inside.
For this Owl Illustration Tutorial, lets begin with a rough pencil sketch. I like using MONO Graph Mechanical Pencil, to lightly figure out my owl drawing sketch in my journal. This can easily be erased, repositioned and you can add more details as needed.
The Irojiten Colored Pencils add deep saturated color to the paper, the vividness of the colors create bold illustrations easily. I love that you can overlap two colors to create depth with simple hatch lines here.
To create the effect of feathers, try adding short lines that overlap slightly. I like to use a pencil that is not too sharp, but has a soft edge to it that will add more color to the paper quickly. In a few strokes you can add so much detail to this owl!
Continue in this manner, adding more colors to each area of your owl, making it as colorful or as monochromatic as you want it to be. I love a good rainbow, and tried to use all the bright colors I could!
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